Celebrating midsummer with bonfires and good food and drink is a nordic tradition dating back to ancient times. Since the weather was calm and mild, I could not resist the temptation to fish and just grabbed my gear. One of our Dutch guests joined me. I gave him a brief instruction of how we would land a potential halibut and (ever the optimist) promised him at least one "flounder" of better dimensions.... After merely 15 minutes of fishing, something "better" grabbed my shad about 30 feet above the ground.... After some majestic, but manageable runs, the fish arrived on the surface. My fishing buddy had apparently listened closely to my instructions and placed the "flying gaff" securely into the fish's head... Well done! At that point, the fish went suddenly completely mad and almost pulled us overboard! Luckily, the solid nylon rope withstood the wild trashing of the majestic fish... We felt a bit like in "Moby Dick"...The fish weighed 48 kgs and measured 158 cm. We could another smaller halibut as well as dozens of codfish from 3 - 7 kgs on almost every cast.....